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Nick Clegg asked today why an 11-year-old would feel so alienated from their community that they could trash it.  He is asking the right que...

I live in a relatively peaceful suburb of south London, in the heart of a huge allotment, secure in the knowledge that – if there is riotin...

“Future students of history will be shocked and angered by the fact that in 1945 the same monetary system that had driven the world to despa...

I'm beginning to think we need to get the hacking scandal into some perspective. I certainly don't want to diminish the seriousnes...

You cannot seek to bribe nor twist, Thank God, the British journalist; But seeing what the man will do Unbribed, there’s no occasion to. ...

I am very grateful, as I so often am, to Jonathan Calder's blog.  This time for the sad news that Sergeant John Sweet has died at the ag...

Watching the news last night left more than a nasty taste in the mouth (well, it often does, actually).  This morning I knew what it was - t...